xvii pages, 1 leaf, 598 pages : 24 cm

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Pulitzer Prize, History, 1925

The American frontier of 1763 -- The forks of the Ohio -- The Shenandoah country and the Tennessee -- The rear of the revolution -- The land problem -- Creation of the public domain -- The national land system -- The old northwest -- The western boundaries -- The first new states -- Political theories of the frontier -- Jeffersonian democracy -- The frontier of 1800 -- Ohio : the clash of principles -- The purchase of Louisiana -- Problems of the southwest border -- The bonds of unity -- The Wabash frontier : Tecumseh, 1811 -- The western war of 1812 -- Stabilizing the frontier -- The great migration -- Statehood of the Ohio : Indiana and Illinois -- The cotton kingdom : Mississippi and Alabama -- Missouri : the new sectionalism -- Public land reform -- Frontier finance -- The American system -- Jacksonian democracy -- The east, and the western markets -- The western internal improvements -- The permanent Indian frontier, 1825-1841 -- The Mississippi Valley boom -- The border states : Michigan and Arkansas -- The independent state of Texas -- 1837 : the prostrate west -- The trail to Santa Fe -- The settlement of Oregon -- The "state" of desert -- The war with Mexico -- The conquest of California -- Far west and politics -- Preemption -- The frontier of the forties -- The railroad age -- Land grants and the western roads -- Kansas-Nebraska and the Indian country -- "Pike's Peak or bust!" -- The frontier of the mineral empire -- The overland route -- The public lands : wide open -- The plains in the Civil War -- The Union Pacific Railroad -- The disruption of the tribes -- The panic of 1873 -- Frontier panaceas -- The cow country -- The closed frontier -- The admission of the "omnibus" states -- The disappearance of the frontier

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